Mount Gay Eclipse Navy Strength

Eclipse Navy Strength is Mount Gay's everyday rum at the proof the Royal Navy issued it. Mount Gay is the oldest commercial rum distillery in the world, with a deed from 1703, in the parish of St. Lucy at the northern tip of Barbados, and Eclipse — named for the total solar eclipse and Halley's comet that shared the sky over Barbados in 1910 — has been its flagship since 1911. Navy Strength takes the same blend of copper pot and column molasses rums, aged in ex-bourbon oak, and bottles it at 57% ABV — the historic navy proof at which rum-soaked gunpowder would still ignite — with no additives. The higher proof does what it does to the Eclipse profile: expect the Bajan signature of banana, vanilla, caramel, and light oak concentrated and given heat, with more of the pot-still's fruit and a peppery, spirit-forward warmth, finishing longer and drier than the standard bottling. Honest note: this is a bartender's bottle — built to hold up in cocktails with juice and ice rather than to sip, and a serious step up in backbone from the 40% Eclipse that RumX's reviewers sometimes find thin. For a Rum Punch that tastes like Barbados, a Daiquiri with real presence, a Mai Tai, a Navy Grog, or a Corn 'n' Oil, it's the oldest distillery in the world at fighting strength. 1703, at 114 proof.

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